Economies of desire at the Victorian fin de siecle: libidinal lives
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Routledge 2015
Series:Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature 16
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Ariculating desire. Always leave them wanting more: Oscar Wilde's Salome and the failed circulations of desire / Ruth Robbins -- A.E. Housman's Ballad economies / Veronica Alfano -- Perfume clouds: olfaction, memory, and desire in Arthur Symons's London nights / Jane Desmarais -- Human currencies. Urban economies and the dead-woman muse in the poetry of Amy Levy and Djuna Barnes / Sarah Parker -- Greek gift and "given being": the libidinal economies of Vernon Lee's Supernatural tales / Jane Ford -- The aesthete, the banker, and the saint: economies of gift and desire in Lucas Malet's The far horizon / Catherine Delyfer -- Queer performativity. Living parody: Eric, Count Stenbock, and decadent performativity / Matthew Bradley -- Camp aesthetics and inequality: Baron Corvo's Toto stories / Kristin Mahoney -- "Our brains struck fire each from each": disidentification, difference, and desire in the collaborative aesthetics of Michael Field / Jill R. Ehnenn
Physical Description:viii, 214 pages
ISBN:1317576594
9781317576594

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